factotums

Meaning of factotums

plural noun
  1. an employee who does all kinds of work.
    he was employed as the general factotum

mid 16th century (originally in the phrases dominum (or magister factotum ), translating roughly as ‘master of everything’, and Johannes factotem ‘John do-it-all’ or ‘Jack of all trades’): from medieval Latin, from Latin fac! ‘do!’ (imperative of facere ) + totum ‘the whole thing’ (neuter of totus ).

Information about factotums

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of factotums is: factotum.
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Hyphenation of factotums

fac-to-tums

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • factotums is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

factotums synonyms

Meaning a rough, slapstick comic performance:

knockabout

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